The
most important festival of Bengal is the Durga
Puja, which is celebrated with grandeur throughout
the state, Calcutta being the venue of the grandest
celebration.
Losar,
the Tibetan New Year, is the most popular festival
in Sikkim. Celebrated with pageantry and fervor,
it is an occasion for feasting and merry-making.
The
tea tourism festival held at Jorhat in Assam provides
tourists with an insight into the life that existed
in the tea gardens of Jorhat two centuries ago.
Vishnupur
Festival is an exuberant, colorful festival celebrated
at Vishnupur in Bankura district of West Bengal
which is famous for its beautiful terracotta temples
and elegant silk sarees.
Maghe
sanktanti is a festival marking the beginning
of the month of magh (mid January) and the end
of the unendurably cold winter. It’s believed
that the doors of heaven open up on this day and
those who die on this day go to heaven...
Sonam
Lochar or Sonam Losoong is the New Year celebrations
of the Bhutia community in Sikkim. Surprisingly,
it falls on the 18th day of the 10th month of
the Tibetan lunar calendar (December), when the
harvest season is over...
Saga
Dawa is the celebration of Buddha’s birth
and death and attainment of Nirvana. It falls
in the month of Saga Dawa (on the 15th of April)
and is considered to be an auspicious time for
the performance of good deeds...
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